I got into an excellent conversation last night with my prettier half about the afterlife and wether or not there was one.  I decided that I think there is a 95% chance that when we die our thoughts stop and we as we know ourselves cease to exist.  This leaves the other 5% which I termed the unknown. 

The unknown is just that an unknown.  It seems throughout history institutions have tried to make humans believe that they somehow have the inside scoop and can tell us what the unknown is.  I really do not think they can.  In fact anyone who tells you that they know anything about the unknown is sadly ignorant.  The fact that no human being can seriously inform me about the unknown leads me to the word spirituality.  I think that the unknown and the word spirituality are interchangeable in my minds vocabulary. 

A long time ago I gave up the notion of the catholic heaven and hell scenario I learned while growing up.  Even the ambiguous “Absence of God”  hell scenario they currently use.  I do, however like to think that there is still a reward/punishment system that is in place.  Its the measuring stick of reward vs. punishment that I can’t seem to put my finger on.  What I’m hoping is that its all based off of hippocrisy.  The way I see it good and evil and pretty subjective terms especially when consequences of actions are taken into account.  So its hard for me to judge people who do common “evil” things such as stealing or playing their bass after 11 pm.  What I do use to judge people is best illustrated by the behavior of the congressman from my district here in Indiana.  His name was Mark Souder and he was a staunch conservative christian republican.  I never did like him much, he always had a racy tendancy to put dead baby talk into his radio adds.  He also one time when visiting my highschool said that prohibition was  not a bad idea.  It’s not that I dont agree with him.  Its that, in my opinion, it’s not anyone’s place to push their values on other people.  It was twice as bad with Souder because he wasn’t just a person pushing his views he was a law making congressman, and it is especially not the governments job to push any value system on its people.  Democrats believe this in regards to abortion, and Republicans with regards to gun control.    So Mr. Souder, the staunch, pious, conservative congressman from Indiana apparently had an affair with an employee of his.  First off the man looks like a portly melting pad of margarine, It seems to me the universe designed him to be extremely resistant to sexual sins.  This leads me to believe that he had to struggle to meet the requirements of such a moral failing.  Its scenarios like this that lead me to believe theres a 5% chance that Mr. Souder is spiritually slothy and will likely have a less good time in anything that resembles an afterlife.  Reicarnation as a female alley cat would be hilarious.

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